[On board the Prison Snow Mentor] Sund: the 22nd [September] This is the 4th: Sund: of our Imprisonment. In the Morning the Seamen turn'd out at 4 oCock to bend the Sails, & make the other Preparation for geting under way, they were very Industrious most of the Morning, in making those preperations.

At about 8 oClock we had a Comfortable Breakfast of warm Chocolet, which was very agreable, in our present Cituation.

About Noon all the Ships, who had Prisoners on board with the Experiment and the Resolution, Men of War, got under way, in Order to go up toward the City, the Wind being unfair, the Ships were Obliged to beat up, & at 4 oClock came too of[f] between Red hook & Gibbit Island,² in midst of a very great Number of Ships, among whome is the Eagle, the Admyral, or Lord Howes Ship, which lay Just ahead of us, & the Rainbow (another large Man of War)³ is near us on the other hand, & besides those, a number of Frigates, & other Ships of War; Here at Night we again turned in, & I Rested on my narrow plank again as well as Usual.